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Which Science Fiction Writer are you?

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paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html

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Hal Clement (Harry C. Stubbs)

A quiet and underrated master of "hard science" fiction who, among other things, foresaw integrated circuits back in the 1940s.
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I'm Gregory Benford
"A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist"

Uh... woot??
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Waddley Hasselhoff wrote:I'm Gregory Benford
"A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist"

Uh... woot??
Benford is an excellent writer. Timescape is a masterpiece.
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Yay! Then I retract my "Uh... woot?" and repalce it with a "WOOT!"

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Jerry Pournelle

This old-fashioned writer may be the most unapologetic capitalist in the field. He has also been influential in many other fields, from space policy to the computer industry

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Isaac Asimov

One of the most prolific writers in history, on any imaginable subject. Cared little for art but created lasting and memorable tales.
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I'm Benford too, it's odd that Wadds and I come out the same on some of these polls...

I got Cordwainder Smith on another such poll...
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It's because I'm really you, danlo!

You knew that.
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I'm that benford guy, too. I wonder how they figured that I'm a working scientist, too? Bums didn't even list chemistry in the favorite field question.
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I'm James Tiptee Jr (Alice B. Sheldon)
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Waddley Hasselhoff wrote:It's because I'm really you, danlo!

You knew that.
Oh god. :oops:
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I got Alfred Bester. In think I did this one a couple of weeks ago when it was going around blogs I read, and got a different result--but I can't remember what it was.
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John Brunner

His best known works are dystopias -- vivid realizations of the futures we want to avoid.
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Robert A. Heinlein
Beginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers.
One of my favourite Sci-Fi authors. :D

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Isaac Asimov - I'm pleased
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Robert A. Heinlein
Beginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers.

Nice.
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I took it again and answered everything differently except "astro physics" and got Benford again...my theory has been proven! :biggrin:
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ugh. David Brinn. blech. :P
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8O You don't like Brin!!!??? well, he really is an astro physicist, anyway...
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